Venditoris: Beware of Scams

Now here’s a really optimistic email pitch to nobody but arriving in my InBox today.

It is clearly a variant on YANL, but is, I believe, a really sad commentary on the state to which some amateur scammers will sink to scrabble for money. I am almost willing to send him some money just so he can get a life.

Almost…

Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 10:42:30 +0800 (CST)
From: moses_jim102@sogou.com
To:
Subject: CONTACT YOUR ATM MASETR CARD

My Dear,

I have contacted my secretary to confirm if you have received the compensation draft cheque of (US$7.8millions) which I issued in your name, but he told me that he could not send it to you because of the courier charges. Now I have called my bank to cancel any payment regards to the draft cheque and then authorized them to transfer the payment into ATM CARD in your name which they did.

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